Etymology Word of the Week – As some of you know, in addition to working in the Admissions Office, I also teach Latin at Saint Ignatius and am something of a "word nerd."  Thus, each week, I’ll sneak a vocabulary word (sometimes derived from Latin, sometimes not) into the e-news.  Here, then, is this week’s edition of the Etymology Word of the Week.  

 

Determined

 

Definition:  “Resolute, staunch; steely; purposeful.”

Origin/Derivation: From the Latin preposition de meaning “from, off” and the Latin infinitive terminare meaning “to mark the end or boundary”, which is derived from the Latin noun terminus meaning “end, limit”.

Related Words: terminate, terminal, interminable

(All information is from www.wikipedia.org, www.etymonline.com and/or www.dictionary.com)

 

 

 

 

 

Trivia Question of the Week:

What album by the Swedish rock group The Hives has a title that features an allusion to a famous phrase attributed to Julius Caesar?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ANSWER:

Veni Vidi Vicious